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Vintage Aeropiccola Engine Starter


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Just for interest, did anyone else have an Aeropiccola spring powered engine starter?

I just came across the old instructions from mine.  I bought this from a model shop in Middlesbrough, in the 1970s, because electric starters were too expensive.

Strongly made from metal, this starter worked by winding the front up a few times then positioning it on the spinner or prop nut and pressing the trigger - wang!

 

It sort of worked but my engine was stubborn, so I performed hundreds of wangs trying to start this engine and ended up with sore fingers from repeated winding up!

I would leave it a day or two to recover then off I went again.

Attached is the instruction sheet ( hopefully I am not infringing any copyright by posting them here; if Aeropiccola are still in business this should be a nice thing for them to see one of their old products highlighted).

 

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